Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

P.S. That's an example of why it's not always a good idea to delete old pages in particular threads.

Have some been deleted then? I thought my post count had gone down!

Great Plum wrote:Have some been deleted then? I thought my post count had gone down!

Not as far as I know.

I'm just suggesting that if the 'pruning' of earlier pages of threads which exceed 5 or 10 pages might result in relevant information being lost.

It could even result in the entire point of the thread being lost (and not just through aimless banter!).

Richard Ruck wrote:P.S. That's an example of why it's not always a good idea to delete old pages in particular threads.

I didn't think there was a suggestion of deleting anything in the CH Stuff sections.

Katharine wrote:

Richard Ruck wrote:P.S. That's an example of why it's not always a good idea to delete old pages in particular threads.

I didn't think there was a suggestion of deleting anything in the CH Stuff sections.

Perhaps not, but my point is that, in a thread which runs to many pages, the original purpose of the thread could easily be lost if the first (and probably most relevant) posts get dumped.

In this particular instance, a question has been asked on page 12 or 13 (I forget which) to which a reasonable answer can be found in the very first post of the thread. If the earlier pages had been dumped, poor Plum would have to re-write his original post, and we all know how pushed for time he is!

This could just as easily happen in the non-C.H. bit.

If she hasn't already ben mentioned, I believe Catherine Llewellyn Smith worked at CH (probably Hertford) for a while, but it may have been under her married name,which I don't know. She read Classics at Uni, so I guess that is what she taught.

To be honest Richard, it was more an attempt to get the thread back on topic again. Not a very subtle one I grant you but it was a simple attempt to pull this back on topic and it seems to have failed.

Scone Lover wrote:To be honest Richard, it was more an attempt to get the thread back on topic again. Not a very subtle one I grant you but it was a simple attempt to pull this back on topic and it seems to have failed.

Never mind - Midget's managed to get it back on topic!

Sorry to go back on topic here and I really cant be bothered to read all of it but has Matt ever mentioned that he has worked at CH? We both did a bit of work for CHE for a bit in the holidays - making beds and stuff. I remember before we were 16 they would pay us in book vouchers!!

Just after I left CH, I was paid in the holidays to go around the grounds shooting pigeons with air rifles!
That has to be one of the oddest jobs done at the school.

I worked at CH for two days a year in Janurary during entrance exams,had a group of kids that i sat with while they did their exams! Got fed for two days and paid! great

Yeah I do that too Amy - think i get roped into as Dad organises it! Think I am doing it again this year! Good little bit of easy cash tho - mind you did you try to do any of the exams?! They are quite tough!

I wouldn't mind a bit of that! how did you end up doing that?

i always tried the maths exam, and every year it has stumped me! I cannot remember for the life of how to do long division-good old ocmputers with calculators and phones with them and mean, median, mode though i cant remember which one means what!

I dont think ill be doing it this year, not enough holiday left!

blondie95 wrote:i always tried the maths exam, and every year it has stumped me!

Did you have to pass an exam to get in as a Dep?